Come racconterebbe la propria discesa agli inferi una ragazzina di 12 anni? Così, come Lola in Atti casuali di violenza insensata la (de)scrive a Anne, il suo diario. Tutto comincia con fatti di ordinaria amministrazione: un padre che non trova a chi vendere le proprie sceneggiature e una madre traduttrice e insegnante che non riesce a lavorare se non a ritmi forsennati. Due sorelline in tenera età e una grande, grande città: New York. Eppure gli echi di una diffusa guerriglia urbana entrano di prepotenza all’interno del racconto che Lola scrive a Anne, il suo diario. Il presidente muore ammazzato, poi ne muore un secondo, la criminalità fa il paio con una fortissima crisi economica e sociale serpeggia una violenza alla Arancia Meccanica. Anche le amichette della scuola (privata) voltano la faccia a Lola quando i genitori sono costretti a trasferirsi in un quartiere popolare per mancanza di denaro. Pian piano Lola si trova a giocare a fare la dura e a entrare in gang di quartiere al femminile. L’amore per Iz, ragazza nera spigliata e combattiva, la trascina sempre più a fondo e ogni sera il coprifuoco viene anticipato… Un mondo distopico come un romanzo di Philip K. Dick che, come nella migliore letteratura fantascientifica assomiglia moltissimo al nostro, funestato dalla crisi. Piccoli elementi sempre più determinanti dipingono una situazione di violenza che non risparmia i bambini, neppure quelli delle “buone famiglie”.

Lola Hart is an ordinary girl living a comfortable life in near-future Manhattan, until her family's life falls apart under the pressures of a city and country that is spinning out of control. Faced with the pressures of surviving any way she can, and surrounded by the new language and violence of the streets, Lola metamorphoses into a street-wise hustler.

Poetry. Bilingual Editon. Translated from the Italian by Luigi Bonaffini. THE BEDROOM [La camera da letto] is Bertolucci's best-known work, so popular that the poet once read it to television viewers on a seven-hour program. It is a narrative poem that traces the history of the poet's family across seven generations with directness, precision and attention to everyday details, major events and fantastic surprises. Paolo Lagazzi writes in his introduction: "THE BEDROOM is a sort of a multi-novel, or a distillation of very diverse narrative forms and intuitions: a Bildungsroman and fairytale, an epoch novel, a novel-chronicle, a dramatic novel and a picaresque novel. An experimental work in the most authentic sense of the word..." "Nothing of time's essence escapes or is neglected by the author's ravenous sensibility, no less active in recording the multiple places in which existence rests (the city and the countryside, the sea and the plane, the Po river and the Maremma) in an exuberant display of forms, lights, perspectives, tonalities."—Luigi Ferrara

Perhaps the most important writer to emerge from the death camps, Primo Levi is known for "Survival in Auschwitz, The Reawakening, " and the classic "The Periodic Table." Angier has spent nearly ten years writing this meticulously researched, vivid, and moving biography.

Translated here into English for the first time is a monumental work of literary history and criticism comparable in scope and achievement to Eric Auerbach’s Mimesis. Italian critic Francesco Orlando explores Western literature’s obsession with outmoded and nonfunctional objects (ruins, obsolete machinery, broken things, trash, etc.). Combining the insights of psychoanalysis and literary-political history, Orlando traces this obsession to a turning point in history, at the end of eighteenth-century industrialization, when the functional becomes the dominant value of Western culture. Roaming through every genre and much of the history of Western literature, the author identifies distinct categories into which obsolete images can be classified and provides myriad examples. The function of literature, he concludes, is to remind us of what we have lost and what we are losing as we rush toward the future.

A systematic effort to rethink Freud's theory of the unconscious, aiming to separate out the different forms of unconsciousness. The logico-mathematical treatment of the subject is made easy because every concept used is simple and simply explained from first principles. Each renewed explanation of the facts brings the emergence of new knowledge from old material of truly great importance to the clinician and the theorist alike. A highly original book that ought to be read by everyone interested in psychiatry or in Freudian psychology.